Definition of Degrading

Degrading

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.Margaret Sanger

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.Thomas Jefferson

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.Hunter S. Thompson

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.Leon Kass